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| Paco Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 4274 days ago 145 posts - 251 votes  Speaks: Cantonese* | Message 1 of 8 13 June 2014 at 11:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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How can someone who do not speak the languages tell apart (written) Spanish, Portuguese
and Galician? What features in their scripts should someone look for? Thank you. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5596 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 2 of 8 13 June 2014 at 11:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you see the letters ç or ã, it is Portuguese, if you see ñ, it is Spanish. I am not sure, but Galician (both the official and the reintegrationist version) may have neither of them.
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| chokofingrz Pentaglot Senior Member England Joined 5186 days ago 241 posts - 430 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Japanese, Catalan, Luxembourgish | Message 3 of 8 14 June 2014 at 12:47am | IP Logged | ||
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Type a sentence into Google Translate and see what it's recognised as?
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| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5596 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 4 of 8 14 June 2014 at 1:01am | IP Logged | ||
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That's an unsure method, Google Translate classifies Galicien reintegrationist as Portuguese! (Well, that is a kind of Portugese, but you wanted to recognise the different written forms) Edited by Cabaire on 14 June 2014 at 1:06am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6594 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 5 of 8 14 June 2014 at 2:40am | IP Logged | ||
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Galician has ñ too. And like Portuguese, its articles are a, o, as, os (as opposed to las, los etc).
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| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6058 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 6 of 8 14 June 2014 at 4:33am | IP Logged | ||
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Galician tends to use the letter "X" where Portuguese and Spanish would have "J".
It's quite hard to recognise in its spoken version. Whenever I hear Galician, I always think: "Why does this Portuguese person with a northern accent use so many Castilian words? Oh, wait... it must be Galician." 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| aodhanc Diglot Groupie Iceland Joined 6257 days ago 92 posts - 130 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish | Message 7 of 8 14 June 2014 at 4:56pm | IP Logged | ||
Google Translate is garbage, totally unreliable and littered with mistakes and errors. Microsoft Bing Translator is slightly better. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5763 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 8 of 8 14 June 2014 at 6:17pm | IP Logged | ||
Takk, mama - Takk, Lebensmittel (=food, groceries) Translate from: Maori ... I am rather sure my Norwegian friend meant 'thank you, mum' 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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